Identification

IDNO

AFR_2010_CBTIE-BL_v01_M

Title

Cross Border Trader Impact Evaluation 2010

Subtitle

Baseline Survey

Countries

Name

Code

Africa

AFR

Study notes

Cross-border trade was identified by the World Bank in 2011 as important for economic growth in fragile and in-conflict countries. Small-scale traders across the DRC-Rwanda border, 90% of which were women, had a poor access to information on tariffs and legal procedures, were forced to pay bribes in cash or in-kind, and were subjected to sexual gender-based violence incidents. Among the recommendations made by the World Bank, there was the need for training of border officials and traders, institutional reforms, and a strengthened voice for traders. In this regard, the World Bank funded a multi-component project "Improving the conditions of cross-border traders in the Great Lakes region of Africa," which was implemented by the NGO International Alert from March 2012 to July 2013.

The DRC-Rwanda Cross-Border Trade Impact Evaluation focused on the effects of the training, under Component 2 "Empowerment of small-scale traders (via increased knowledge and understanding of regulations and rights and establishment and strengthening of associations/cooperatives)," of the larger project. It was a randomized individual trader-level assignment of 628 traders to treatment (training) and control. There were two rounds of survey data collection conducted by The Catholic University of Bukavu and IPSOS in 2011 and 2013. From the (unpublished) results, there was a potential reduction in sexual and gender-based violence (fewer traders insulted or spit upon), with no increase in "unofficial" fees to border officials. There also was a possible drop in corruption (fee-asking by border officials) emerging from the participation of border officials in the trader's training. Savings from trading activity also seemed to increase for small-scale cross-border traders.

Kind of data

Sample survey data [ssd]

Version

Version

- v01: Edited, anonymous datasets for public distribution.

Coverage

Geographic coverage

The dataset covers the Great Lakes zone, specifically North-Kivu and South-Kivu provinces in Democratic Republic of Congo (represented by three fourths of the sample) and the border region in Rwanda (represented by one fourth of the sample).

Unit of analysis

Individual trader-level

Producers and sponsors

Authoring entity

Name

Affiliation

Kevin Croke

The World Bank

Markus Goldstein

The World Bank

Michael O'Sullivan

The World Bank

Sampling

Sampling procedure

A trader roster has been made available through the listing of traders at border crossings to identify 628 traders (90% female), from which 314 initially randomly selected to be trained and 314 selected to not receive the training.

Data access

Citation requirements

Use of the dataset must be acknowledged using a citation which would include:
- the Identification of the Primary Investigator
- the title of the survey (including country, acronym and year of implementation)
- the survey reference number
- the source and date of download.

Disclaimer and copyrights

Disclaimer

The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.